Chapter 6: The Terrible Night at the Casino (1966)
After Ken had woken up for the first time in some place that he was not even sure if he was imagining or not, he was just trying to figure some things out for himself as to find out where he was and what he needed to do in order to get himself back to at least some form of normalcy. It was hard for him to even comprehend ninety percent of the stuff that he was seeing. But he was willing and forcing himself to at the very least try.
He saw that there was a giant bedroom. As he was looking around the giant bedroom, there was a huge bottle with heads in it as well as things that showed mementos as if the place was sort of like a treasure room that he had been forced to be thrown inside. As if he was actually a treasure for the person who had lived in here and that Ken was going to be killed and then put up in the house and then the next time that a person was here, they would be wondering just what the fuck was even going on. "Oh, the young man is waking up again. He seems to be confused about everything is going on. Maybe he will be willing to finally talk with me now that he is able to comprehend what is around him." The thing that was in the house said and then the more that Ken looked at them, the more that he was wondering if this was even a real human. It really did not even look like a human at all. They had actually looked like a octopus thing that was wearing a doctors clothes and they were looking at Ken as if wondering what the hell Ken was even like in the first place.
"Where the hell am I? Last time I checked, I was dealing with something that looked like a blue gate. Now I am here in front of something that looks like a octopus doctor. I feel like I am dreaming or something." Ken had said and then when he had said that, the octopus thing looked at Ken and then they smiled and they were wondering what Ken was even talking about.
"I have never seen anything like you before. You look like something that I had heard about in books before. As if you were somebody who has come back to life years after your kind has gone extinct." This thing was saying to Ken and as they had been talking more, the more that Ken was really starting to think that he was dreaming after all. Which was more realistic than anything that was going on at the moment. That was what he was telling himself at the very least. But then he stood up and he was feeling like he was already going to fall on the ground.
"I can barely walk at all. I feel like I am a little bit sick. Please explain to me what is going on right now. I can't stay here and not have any answers." Ken said and he was walking around slowly and each step that he had taken was getting a little bit easier for him to do this. Then with that, he tried to take things slowly and the slower that he was going, the better that he had been able to walk on this whole way.
"You probably need to relax for a little bit longer. You may not want me to tell you this. But I found you asleep in the forest. I did not really know what to expect of you when I first saw you. When I found you, I took you in and have been taking care of you since then and trying to make sure that when you did wake up, you would be ready to take on what is going on around you and you will be ready for the new life that you are most likely going to have to try to live." The octopus thing said and then Ken turned around to see what the hell they were actually talking about.
"What is going on? How long was I out? Please just tell me the truth." Ken said and then when he had said that, the octopus creature was quiet a little bit and then when they were quiet for a little bit, Ken was preparing himself for some news that he knew was going to be really hard for him to take in. He knew that there was no way that he was going to take this whole news too well and he knew that he was probably going to freak out.
"You have been in a coma for a decently long time. Probably longer than you have been in your entire life to this point in time. You have been asleep for eleven days. Right now it is July 31st, and you have been here ever since July 20th. I hope that you are not going to freak out too much over this news. I tried my best to make sure that you could wake up, but I did not really find a way that can get you up. I am very sorry for you." The octopus thing said and then Ken looked at the mirror close by and Ken could not believe he had been away from home for nearly two weeks. Asleep nearly two weeks. Nearly two weeks since Sam had died. He wondered if his parents thought he himself was dead as well
"What can I do now? I really need to get back to my house and I need to let them know that nothing is going on and that I am totally fine. I have a feeling that they are going to be really scared to see that I have been gone for so long and when I come back and show them that I am alive, they are going to be super happy and that this is going to get them so happy that it will make up for everything so far." Ken said and he was starting to get more serious about being with his parents again and showing them he was totally fine and at least one child was alive of theirs.
"Well, I don't really think I have a way to help you find your house. That is sort of out of my power. I hope that this does not really bother you too much. I'm sorry dude, but this is your own life now. You need to start to accept the fact that there is nothing of your past that will be given back to you. You are alone now and once you step outside of this house, you are going to be alone. How old are you?" The octopus thing was saying and then when they asked Ken that, he looked over at the strange being as if wondering what the point of that was.
"I'm sixteen years old. Not really all that old. I doubt that I will be able to last too long on my own. But if that is truly how it is and that is all I can do, then I guess that maybe I will accept this challenge." Ken answered and then the octopus guy looked at Ken and they were wondering how Ken could say that sixteen was not that old. That would be old enough to sort of take care of themselves and accept the terrible reality of being alone.
"Sixteen is more than old enough for you to go out and live your life in the outside world. There is a lot of stuff that somebody your age can do. So please don't give me the fact that you are not old enough. Despite what your culture will try to tell you, sixteen is in fact an adult and you better start treating yourself like one. But yourself whatever you want, do what you need to survive. But the fact is that you are on your own. You are not a kid anymore, take charge. Be the man that you are supposed to be." The octopus had said and then when they had said that, Ken started to get near the entrance of the house.
"Well, if this is what you believe in and what you think that I can do right now that can give me some good resources to handle this world of your world more?" Ken asked and then he looked at the octopus thing looked at Ken and they thought about his question. It was a valid question, but they were not really sure if there was any good answer of if there was nothing that can be given to him at this very moment until he went out and explored more. But then they remembered something.
"There is a swords master. Quite a interesting digimon. If you go to them and tell them that I sent you there and that you need to be taught some moves, they will probably be more willing to work with you than normally. So yeah, try that place out and maybe you can actually be able to get some good training and that way you can have something to defend yourself with." The octopus digimon that Ken assumed that was what this thing was now said and then Ken was slowly realizing this was the world that it was, not one he would have any good weapons besides a fucking centuries old thing that would break down upon hitting something hard.
"Okay here is the thing, I don't think that I can be able to fight things off with a sword. So while I am able to appreciate your offer and the fact that you want to help me, but I just do not see myself being able to put this thing to use. However, I could be wrong and if I am wrong, I will come to that training house and then maybe I will be able to use your sword master training house after all." Ken said and then as he had said that, the digimon looked at Ken as if trying to see if he could survive out there on his own.
"Please young man, do not mess with me. If you do not see that guy, I will most likely see you dying here. I do not want to see you die so soon after you have woken up. Just go there and tell him that you were sent here by me. This will make things so much better for you. Trust me, I know that I am telling the truth here." The octopus digimon said to Ken and when they had said that, Ken was starting to think that maybe they were right and that Ken really should check this thing out after all.
"Fine, you win. I will go out and give it a try. After all, if for nothing else, it might be able to get a few days to see what the hell this world is like and why you think I need to do all of this after all. I don't really know if this will work out too well or not, but I will see what I can be able to do here before I start to do things that will start to get even more dangerous for me. Since I have a feeling I am going to be in danger a lot coming up." Ken said and then he turned to the house door and the digimon had said one final thing to him.
"If you find the man in the purple jacket, do not come to him. Just leave him as fast as possible. He has all intentions to just use you and then when he is done using you, he will throw you away and then you will die sooner than Sam had been able to die. I know all about Sam. After all, I heard what you were saying during your sleep." The octopus digimon said that one final thing, and then when they had said that, Ken left the house and he started to go on and investigate the world and seeing what he could do. He was not really too sure if this place was really going to be the place that this digimon had been hyping up, but there was always the good idea to give it a chance and see what the hell was going on here and what he can do to survive.
When he was outside of the house, he saw that there was a small town that looked like it had been used for the setting of some form of western setting. Ken was going to go around and he was going to see if maybe he could get some advice from any of these things on what the hell a digimon was. It was just so strange since he felt like he was inside of a fiction world when this was supposed to be real life. This stuff was really fucking with him more than it probably should have by this point in time.
Ken then saw that there was a bar and he walked up to it. If the digimon that was talking to him earlier was saying that Ken was already an adult despite only being sixteen years old, maybe he could get away with lying and saying that he was going to be old enough to drink. Yeah, it was really silly for that to be the first thing for him to think about, but this was going to be something that he was probably never going to be able to do again so he was going to take care of it. Afterwards, when he was at the bar, Ken saw that there was no sign saying the limit to how old he had to be to go inside of this bar. He decided that he was going to give this a try after all and see what would happen.
So Ken walked on inside of the bar and when he was inside of the bar, he saw that there was probably a ton more of these so called digimon in the area. Some of them looked like wolf rip offs and while Ken would agree that it had looked cool, he was still very much confused and he had no idea how he was going to be able to figure any of this out. So Ken sat down in one of the chairs and he was looking around to see what type of drink he would be able to have and get away with it.
"Hey, I would like a scotch." Ken said and then he looked down and then he saw that he had thirty dollars in his pocket. He thought that maybe the digimon who took care of him slipped in some money so that way he would be able to have something that could get him going and that way he could be able to buy some things. The digimon looked at him and then nodded. The digimon was a brown dog with what looked like grey armor as their clothes. Ken probably thought that whatever the hell this thing was, he was probably looking at something that served in a war. Or whatever the hell a war was in this world and all that. The digimon started to make Ken the drink he had asked for with no reference to saying he might be too young.
"Here you go, that will be two dollars." The digimon said and then Ken pulled out three dollars, two for the payment and one for the tip. The digimon looked down at this and they decided not to mention the fact that they had paid one more than they had said he needed. He never got a tip before, so they do not really get the concept of what being a tip was like and all of that stuff. This was when Ken was going to bring up the point that was really confusing him this whole time and he needed to just get at least some form of answer.
"Why did you not tell me that I was too young to drink? I thought that there was an age that I had to be in order to actually drink, or am I just going crazy?" Ken was saying and then that digimon started to look at Ken as if he totally were insane and was wondering what the hell this guy was on and if he was just messing around this whole time. Then they thought that it was no real big deal.
"There is no drinking age. You can drink pretty much as soon as you can be able to pay for the drink. We have six year old drinking here and it doesn't bother me. As long as they have the money that is needed to pay, then we are all good." The digimon had said and then when the digimon said that, Ken was taking the drink and just said that he was a little bit confused and was sorry if he had caused any sort of confusion for that guy as well. Then when he was drinking, everything was going pretty decently and he was just sort of getting himself to actually enjoy being in this world after all and he thought that maybe this type of world would actually be something he could get used to.
"Hey, do you know of how I can get to the swords master near by here? I was told that I needed to find this one guy and then he could teach me the things I needed to know to be able to survive in this world." Ken said to the digimon who was serving up the bar and he was wondering what the hell Ken was talking about, but they decided that they were probably just trolling around and that Ken was just sort of out of his mind right now.
"Just walk for a couple of hours. They are near the exit of a road but down a very large pathway in order to avoid anybody coming in there. I don't know the exact house, but that is what I have heard form before." The digimon said and then Ken finished his drink and then he slammed down the cup just hard enough to make a noise but soft enough to not break it and then he thanked the digimon and then he headed on out away.
When Ken was out of the bar, he was walking down the edge of this pathway and he was getting ready to confront this digimon and whatever they were going to be able to teach him. He needed a strong thing with him for him to be able to actually survive in this whole world. He had no real clue what he was going to do here, and he had no real clue if he was even going to be accepted into this at all. In fact, he was pretty sure that he was not going to be accepted. But he could come up with a good reason for him to maybe get a couple of days. Maybe if he said that he was only going to be there for the weekend, then maybe the digimon would be more willing to work with him then since it would only be for one weekend. But that was what he was thinking at that moment. He was not really even sure if that was going to be how it would go. But he was sort of getting his hopes up.
The more that he was walking down these barren streets, the more that Ken was hearing about different things about how the world was just barely saved from total destruction a few months ago and now it is going back to the mess that it already had been just two months later and that they needed to start to work together again to make sure that the world did not get fucked up once again. It was making Ken wonder how the world so called nearly ended a couple of months ago and how it also so called only built up again to be sort of taken away once more. It just simply strange for him and he was not really sure what he was going to feel when he found out the truth.
The closer that he was to accepting the fact that he was not going to be returning home anytime soon, if he ever would at all, the more that he was just wanting to figure out what was going on here and he was needing to see if he could help out at all. While when he grew older, he started to gain much more cynical and hateful than he had ever been before, there was still a period of time back in the day when he was still wanting to help out and he had actually thought of the idea that he was able to make a true difference. But he started to think as he slowly got older and older that this was just not going to happen and when he started to think that this was not going to happen, the more that his world was becoming more of the one that his friends and the general world would know of him as when he had gotten much older.
This was getting really hard for him to really get used. Just because he had started to accept the fact that he was going to be doing this in the first place and the fact that he was not really going to be ready for anything that was going to be thrown at him, but he was still going to very much try since he knew that there was nothing that could be worse than just sort of wasting your life away. That was something he learned in his freshmen year. That you need to always work as hard as you can and make sure that you never waste any of your time since time is precious and everybody should try to do all with it that they are able to really do.
After the sun was starting to set, Ken had seen the pathway that he thought he was going to have to start going down. Ken figured that he should get going down there right away. As he was walking down this pathway, he was slowly having this strong feeling that this was where he needed to be and not only that, but maybe he should have always been there right from the start and that he should have never wasted any time just going around to any other place and that he should have been spending the last eleven days here instead of just sleeping around and wasting all of his time sleeping and being in a short term coma.
The pathway took nearly fifteen minutes for him to actually go down this pathway and he was kind of amazed at how long it had actually taken for him to be going down there, as he thought he would have been able to reach it much faster. But soon enough, after just going down a pathway with trees all at the side so there was no interference, he eventually reached the front door. He knocked at the front door of this place and when he knocked at the door, he was thinking about what to say. Soon enough, the door answered and he was shocked at how little he needed to wait at all for this. "Hey, I was told that this would be a good place for me to go to when I woke up for the first time in several days and that maybe you should be able to help me out find my way and get something I can use to fight with."
"You seem to be rather blunt about your intent on why you are here. I will give you that much. But what the hell do you plan on doing here to prove to me that you truly are ready for the tests that you are going to be taking when and if I do allow you to be here as my apprentice?" The digimon said and they had a large scar on their right eye and they seemed to be wondering just what a random human was doing in this world at all.
"You should not be in this world. You are not of our kind. I have no idea what you are doing here. Unless if that is that this world is starting to already fall apart. Which would be really awful considering the fact that we had just restored this world for the first time in several years a few months ago. Please tell me why you are wanting to train with me to begin with?" The digimon said and Ken was trying really hard not to think and constantly look at the scar on that persons face. They had not wanted to give off the impression that this is the only thing that they cared about since they felt that if this was the case, they would be looked at as a utter asshole.
"I just decided to come here since I was told by the people here that I needed to come here. There is nothing else to it. I don't want to give off a fucking essay as to why I need to be here and I have no idea how or why I even got to this place in the first place. So if you want, you should just cut off the I wonder shit and just work with me here." Ken said and then when he had said that, the digimon looked at him and there was a moment they were starting to get really pissed. But then they thought that maybe them being pissed off could be something that they can use for the training of this guy after all and then Ken can be able to improve after all and then he can become a apprentice that could be of use to the world.
"Right now, you have a long way to go and I really highly doubt that you guys have a true way that you can before what the world needs right now. But that being said, I can see that if I work with you, you can be the man who can bring peace and prosperity to the world." The digimon said and then after the digimon said that, Ken was looking around as the digimon started to open the door for Ken to go inside of. When Ken was inside of the house, he started to look around it to see what exactly it was like and what he could do to work with the digimon and how he could so call improve and be a good hero. He highly doubted that he needed to be a hero or that he wanted to be a hero or that he could be a hero. There was so much to go with. Ken just thought that maybe he can just learn more of what was going on and then he could eventually figure out where to go now. And then he could start to avenge Sam and then find the guy in the purple jacket.
"Look, I really feel as if training you might be a genuine mistake and that you could not really go all that far in life. But I have a feeling that you could be the only one who can take care of the upcoming threat in the world. That is if there even is one that is coming up and all that. I am not really gong to take the risk here and I am going to let you train here under the condition that you do not reveal where I live to the others and that once you are done, then you go to the ultimate training hall of JewelBeemon. Only when you are done will I reveal to you where JewelBeemon lives. That is the only time that I truly will trust you to take care of this." The digimon said and then when they had said that, they told Ken to just follow him for a little while.
"You will not be able to learn how to be a sword master if you do not even have one. You are going to need one if you want to be able to become a sword master. I know that you will probably be thinking that this is a strange weapon to use and that a gun might be much better. But in your world, the roles of a sword and gun are reversed. Where while a gun is basically able to win a war in your world and that a sword is totally useless, in this world the gun is a very dated thing and just won't be able to really hold up, but a sword can slice through things very easily if you know just how to use it properly. Not to say that a gun does not have their own uses. Of course it does." The digimon was continuing their lecture and they opened a door that showed a bunch of sword types and one of them was a wooden one.
"I do not trust you to take on the major one quite yet. I know that you probably want to get into the real action. I do not blame you for feeling that way. However, you are not quite ready to take on that major responsibility yet. In a couple of days, if you are able to show me that you can work well with it, I will let you have one of the real ones. But I want you to learn more first." This digimon said and then pulled out the single wooden sword in their collection. "I only have one here since I only take one apprentice at a time. I go by the ideal of one master and just one apprentice so that way both of the people or digimon can learn how to work with each other as best as possible. I think that once you see it for yourself, you will be able to see why I feel this way."
"How many digimon or people have you gone on and trained here? I am curious to know how much you have been able to use your skills to pass on the line to other digimon." Ken said and then he grabbed the wooden sword, not really sure what to think about this too much. He did not really know if he liked the idea of having a sword or not, and since he had never used one before, this was going to be one of the more interesting things that he was probably going to do in this world and on this quest that Ken thinks he is sort of forced to take on now.
"I have had seven apprentices in my twenty two years of being a sword master. My teacher was a human just like you. He taught me for a year when he was a little bit older than you. Then when that was done, I was left to go on and see what I can do. Every three to four years,a new apprentice shows up and I teach them for about a year as well until I think they are ready to go on and go to the world once more. I do not know if I will be able to teach you for that long given how much you probably have to do. But I guess that maybe you and I should probably get ready on all of this if you want to be able to at the very least fight on your own. I will probably not be able to teach you all of the different moves on how to fight, but I will at the very least teach you the very basic moves on how you can be able to win the battles. So this is going to be like level one teaching." The digimon said and then when they had said that, Ken looked down at the sword and he was not really sure what to think about all of this now.
Ken and the digimon went inside a small training session and Ken was told to be able to try and dodge some attacks. He was not really expecting Ken to be able to fight fully, be he thought that dodging was going to be a good early exercise that he could be able to learn and all of that stuff. Ken held up the sword and each time that there were a couple of swings at Ken, the sword was dodging the attack and this had gone on for three or four sessions and it had seemed that after those amount of times, the teacher was starting to let go on that and think that at the very least, Ken knew how to block and all of that stuff. "I know that this was pretty easy for you to figure out, and I was going to be more shocked had you not been able to learn that, but I was wanting to make sure that this was the very least you could be able to pull off."
The next day during the lesson, the teacher decided that they would try to teach Ken simple moves such as how to get a jab in right under the arm of the opponent. "It seems like something that anybody can do without too much teaching, but in reality like any other move you have to put more effort into it if you want to make it so that it does not like you are just swinging around with no real clear goal in mind." The digimon then took a step back after they said that and then held out their right arm as they were doing the movement of the stab and then Ken tried to do the same and he hopped a little bit as he was about to bring in a jab but the digimon kicked him to the side and then Ken fell down to the ground. Ken then stood up and then he took a couple of steps back to make sure that he had some room but then when the digimon started to get closer to him, Ken made yet again another jab at the digimon and then this time he actually did manage to touch the armor a bit, which was what the digimon had wanted him to do at the first place.
"I wonder how many different types of moves that there are." Ken had said and then when he had said that, the digimon decided to remain silent as they were going to let Ken start to see that for his own throughout all of the training that he was going to have to deal with. On the second day, Ken was taught how to do a proper swing. He was told that a swing was not just a matter of moving your arms around in a way that makes it look like you are just doing stuff right on the spot. But then the digimon showed what they would consider a proper swing to look like and how it would require both arms and a slow swing. Ken put both his hands on the hilt and then when he was swinging, he was doing his best to make sure that it was slow and that the digimon would be able to approve of that whole thing. Ken had to take a couple of times, since he was not really sure if he was actually going to do this correctly and he knew that this was just something that he was not really going to be able to master on just the first couple of tries. When he took a couple of tries, the digimon thought that Ken was probably going to do this as best as he could. So he just called off the lesson and told Ken to just let it go now. "How many more things do you plan on having me learn if you just want me to learn the pure basics and nothing else at all? I don't know how many days or nights you want me to stay here."
"I have no idea how much longer I can be able to have you here. Soon enough, I doubt I will be able to have enough time and I will be forced to kick you out so that way you can go on and start to follow your destiny." The digimon that was trying to train Ken said and then when they had said that, Ken was thinking that this was starting to not really be what he had needed and that he needed something more than just a basic amount of training if he had wanted to have a chance to so call save the world that he was just possibly thrown into that might not even be the same as earth at the end.
In the next day, the teacher digimon handed Ken a shield. When they had handed Ken this shield, this was when Ken was wondering why he would ever need one in the first place. "I doubt that I will be able to really give you any good defenses. So I will try and come down at you and I just expect you to block it." The digimon said said and right when they had said that, the digimon swung down their sword right down at Ken and then Ken was forced to block it. This attack was so out of nowhere but at the same time he knew that he should have seen it coming. Then Ken took a couple of steps back and there was more and more when Ken was being swung towards and then Ken had to keep blocking. It had gotten to the point in which Ken was blocking so much he had a feeling he knew how to use a shield more than he had known how to use a sword.
On the next day of training, right before the session had started, the digimon turned around to Ken and looked at them as if they were trying to decide if they should do what they had been planning on doing or if they should wait a couple more days. "After we are done today, I want to speak with you on something else. I think that you need to prepare yourself for that." The digimon said and then when they had said that, the digimon had told Ken that this was going to be duel. The duel was pretty short lived since it had involved the digimon swinging their sword down a couple of times and then Ken moved his sword around a couple of times and as he was doing so, the digimon had been managed to be touched a couple of times with the wooden blade. This so called duel had been lasting for about three to four minutes before the digimon jumped back and said that it was over. "I just wanted to see if you were able to pull this off after all. Seems like you can do a relatively decent job holding yourself up."
"So what is going on now? What do you want me to do now?" Ken had asked and then when he had asked this, the digimon led Ken to the exact same room that he had been led to at the very start of this training stuff a few days ago. When he was there with his short term master, the group was all wondering what there was they even needed to do. The digimon was just shaking their head since they were not wanting to do this but they had felt like they needed to do this.
"I think you need to head out on your quest. All you need to do is to go to all of the gangs in the area and you need to take them all down. If you can take down the four gangs, you might actually be able to have a chance on being able to save the city and then I think that JewelBeemon will be more likely to go on and accept you as being one of the apprentices to this group. I just feel as if you are the one who is supposed to go on and do this job, and while you may not be ready for this job, I still feel as if perhaps you are going to be the one who can have it all figured out." The digimon had said and then they looked down at Ken and Ken was pretty not wanting to do this, but he had a terrible feeling deep down inside that this digimon had been telling the truth.
"I don't like it, and I really wish that I was not the one who was going to be forced into this, but I have a feeling that you are telling the truth. And that is going to be the only reason why I will be saying yes to this. And you are going to be the only reason that I have a feeling that I may have even a small percent chance on being able to save the city at all. Since you did give me a couple of days of being able to practice and learn from here." Ken said and he was still not really able to believe just how little he was going to be training and how much he was pretty much thrown into this whole thing.
"Here you go. This weapon is going to give you a little bit of a edge on how to be able to be ready to take on the four gangs. It might not be all that you need. But this will give you at the very least a start and you will be able to have at least a small chance of being able to win this war. Well, I guess not really a war as much as just a short term battle that you will have to deal with." This digimon had said and gave Ken this black sword that looked like it had been made out of some sort of moon stone. He decided not to ask since he had a feeling that really did not matter.
"You need to probably head out as soon as possible. You need to realize that you have a lot of stuff to do and that every hour you waste here you are going to be increasing the chances that you will probably fail this test." The digimon had said and then when that was said to him, Ken grabbed the sword and then afterwards, there was a shield that was given to Ken as well. "You need to head out as soon as possible. Once you are out of this house, your adventure is going to pick back up and we will probably never see each other again."
Then with that, Ken nodded and while he didn't like this, it was the truth and then Ken headed out of the house and it took him less than five minutes for it to feel as if he was never really there to begin with and like he was never really taught anything at all and that he had wasted like five days of his life. Five days that he was supposed to be saving the world he supposed but it was just too hard for him to really think that he was the one who was going to be saving the world or anything crazy like that. He was thinking that maybe he was just playing his part in history and that he truly did not matter all that much and that even if there was not him on there, he would be the one who was forgotten all in history. This was what would make sense to him to be totally honest.
He was walking along and as he was walking, the more that he was thinking about going to that town that he had been in earlier. He thought that maybe this was going to be a little bit hard for him to really figure out and he was thinking that he just needed to sort of figure more things out if he had any real chance of finding even a single one of these gangs. In fact, he was still thinking about the gangs and how there was even a chance that one of them would be able to take over an entire city or anything like that. He felt like there was no real chance something like that could happen, but he was telling himself that anything could happen and that he just needed to be more ready.
It took a few hours for him to go back to where he had been starting his adventure at. A difference of four to five days was barely even a difference on the calendar and even less of a difference in the city. The exact same digimon were there pretty much and it was as if Ken was there the entire time and that there was nothing that Ken could even be able to find that could even show that he was there in the first place besides the two things on his body that showed he was at the house.
Ken was checking everything out and when he was checking everything out, Ken had been sure that there was pretty much nothing that he could do at that moment that would really give him any clues. He just had some form of feeling that there was nothing in the town that could give him any real clues. He thought that maybe he could ask a couple of digimon around, but that this would be all that he really could be able to do. Then he saw that there was a building that looked a little bit like a casino about three quarters of a mile away. When he had seen this casino, he thought that perhaps there would be a digimon or two that would be there to give him some answers.
So he started to walk on towards the casino and as he was walking there, the more that he was coming up with stuff that he could perhaps say to the digimon there to make them think that they could be able to help him out. There was just so many things that he needed to do in order for them to really get what he was trying to do. Not that they would be able to truly help him out and give him all of these answers, but he thought that even just a couple of answers would be enough to sort of give him ahead start on what to fucking do now. As he was getting to the front entrance of the casino, well he should say one of like the five entrances to the casino considering how fucking many doors there were, Ken decided to just look at the bright scenery and flowers that were all over the place and then Ken thought that had he failed this quest, then everything would be totally fucked. All of the work that had been put down would be thrown away and then there were be nothing that he could really do about it to make himself feel better about what the hell was going on.
He opened the front door to the casino and then when he had opened the front door to the casino, he was looking around and then he was starting to think that he was a little bit wrong about this. All he had seen was just a bunch of digimon walking around and they were all in super fancy clothes. Which already made Ken pretty much have a totally off outfit in the setting. Not only that, but then there was a huge group of digimon that were just playing poker or the digital world equal to poker. Ken was wondering what their version of the game was even like, but he was forced to tell himself that this doesn't matter and that he needs to focus more on the bigger things in mind. He needed to just focus on the bigger picture and that was the idea of him figuring out what the hell he needed to do to hunt down these four gangs.
Ken decided to walk towards this poker game. He had not really thought that there was a gang there or anything, but he thought that maybe they would be able to give him at least a couple of ideas just to see what the hell is going on. "Hey, do you mind if I join the game? I promise that I won't cheat or anything." Ken had said and then the group looked up at Ken and then they had remained silent for a little bit and then after a couple of seconds of thought, they decided that there was no way, even with the sword, that he was not going to be too much of a trouble.
"You can sit down, just make sure you are paying attention and that you don't ask any stupid questions. You need to pay attention as that will be the only way you are going to be able to learn how to play this. We are not going to take any breaks just for you." The digimon that was handing out cards said. Ken sat down as he was thinking about how generic this digimon had looked and he thought that this digimon was just somebody that was needing to fully let themselves go since they were getting close to being that way anyways.
The digimon was wearing a bunch of white clothes, a giant white suit. There was blonde artificial hair that they had, almost as if Ken was looking at Fred Trump's son, wasn't his name like Donald or something? That guy was only a couple of years older than Ken. He was like twenty at the time while Ken was sixteen. Only a four year difference, which is basically only one presidential election. But then Ken was wondering why anybody had thought that the blonde fake hair was a sexy look. He didn't look down on people who looked that way, he just did not really agree with this at all.
After that sort of out of thought moment, Ken looked at the poker table and the whole time that the game was being played, he was not only paying attention to the rules, which he sort of knew what was going on as it was basically the exact same as the game of poker rules that there were on earth. But now he was paying attention to the words of plans and all of that stuff. "Once we get down to Vegas, the boss is going to be so happy that we managed to buy off this town. Every little town is a fair win for us. But this one is even more important than the others. After all, it is a good stopping spot for all the trade that our boss wants to do." The digimon said that was right next to them as they were chomping down on a cigar. The digimon did not even really think Ken hearing this was not too much of a problem due to the fact that they thought he was too dumb to get it and Ken was so good acting like he was focused on the game that it actually seemed like he was able to convince them he was only on that.
"We have a good reason to believe that there will be no real problem on taking this town over." The digimon who had allowed Ken to join the game was saying and then he placed down his card and it had seemed as if he was going to win this game fair and square. Ken was looking at the cards he had a little bit more and when he was doing this, he was thinking that there was actually a chance that he could be able to pull off a victory at this game and then with that, Ken started to lay down all the cards that he thought he would need and use to win the game and then everybody else saw the cards he put down and they were slowly starting to realize that he was going to win the game. Then he looked at the digimon and they were starting to think that he was a cheater and that he must have done something to fuck up the game.
"Well, now that I won the game, do I get anything besides the fame of winning a poker game against a bunch of Vegas workers?" Ken said and then he looked around as he was smiling and he was starting to think that there was a chance that they were actually going to give him the information that he had wanted. The digimon that looked a little bit like a Trump rip off sighed and they seemed to think that this was going to be really bad but that if he was able to win a poker game, that he could be a little bit useful.
"You and I are going to have a little bit of a talk. Meet me up in my hotel room on the third floor. Once we are there, then we can be able to talk more about the deal that I am starting to think up of a little bit. I think that you are really going to like my deal." The digimon said and the more that they were saying this, the more they were thinking that this plan could actually start to go on and work in their favor a lot more than they had thought that it would have been like. Ken stood up and then looked at the other digimon and then their boss said something to their digimon that made Ken think that maybe there was a different plan to all of this.
Ken and the digimon started to walk towards their hotel room. The more that Ken was getting to being there, the more that Ken was thinking that he could actually be able to start a good infiltration into that area and then when they find a good infiltration method, perhaps he could actually be able to move up on the rankings of this gang and then that can be how he takes at least one of the four of them down. He was really thinking that this whole thing was going to be one of the smartest ideas that he had and all he had to do was just get the digimon to work with him, if that was even totally possible at all.
When Ken and that digimon that looked like a Trump rip off reached their room, the digimon closed the door and then they looked at Ken a little bit more. "So how were you able to win the game when there was no real clear reason that you should have been able to pull that off? It just does not make any sense how you were able to pull it off." Ken then thought that maybe he could just tell the truth and maybe this could get the digimon a little bit more willing to go on and work with them.
"Well, my brother used to play poker a lot. He recently died about two to three weeks ago. I can't believe that it has been that long already. Anyways, after he died, I was thrown into this place and I was able to use the moves that he had taught me in order to win this poker game and I have nothing besides just pure good memory to be able to give me this victory." Ken said and then when he told that digimon this, the more that for just a split second the digimon started to feel a little bit bad for Ken.
"Well, I do have some sympathies for you. It is never easy to go on and lose a sibling. I do actually know how that feels like. Was in my early twenties. Sister died from a illness. But I guess that the sob stories are over since I need to make you an offer. I want to take you over to where my boss is at. I want to be able to talk with him on the idea of perhaps getting you to join us. I think that if you are able to learn this stuff so fast, that maybe you can actually be of some use after all. I know that you are probably going to say no, but I think that I can convince you." The digimon said and then they sat down and as they were sitting down, they had their left hand under their back and it was moving around. As if they were going to pull of something that looked like a gun and that Ken was going to have to use his weapon and start to fight off a little bit and save his life.
"Well, honestly, I do want to meet your boss. But I need to know that this is not a barter and that you are just going to throw me down in the dumpster when you are done with me. I have a terrible feeling that maybe you are going to just use me until you are done and then you are going to throw me away. I just know of a guy in the purple jacket that would do the exact same thing back in the time when I had known him." Ken said and then he put his hand closer to the hilt and then the digimon pulled out their gun and aimed at Ken.
"I got to admit, you seem to be smarter man than I gave you credit for. I was just going to lead you to the ally way and then kill you. But since you figured it out, I guess that I can cut off the suspense and give you the present of just getting it over with right here and right now." The digimon explained and then Ken took out his sword and then he aimed it right down to the front of that digimon. "Do you seriously expect me to be scared of you when I see a fucking sword? I have a gun, I can be able to take you out very easily." The digimon said and then they started to put their finger at the trigger and then Ken started to swing around.
Ken didn't even think about it and he was remembering the lesson that he had been taught by that one digimon earlier. He slashed right down and as he had done so, there was a huge slash on the chest of the digimon and after a fight that lasted less than three seconds, Ken had actually won the battle. Ken then put the sword away on his hilt and while he did have a short moment of guilt of killing a digimon, he was able to tell himself that it was just a artificial being and that there was nothing that he needed to feel bad for. Then he checked the pockets of this digimon and then he pulled it out of there.
He looked at the contents of the pocket and then he had seen that it was a large wallet. He saw that the wallet gave him the map that he needed to follow that would lead him right down to the business center of the boss. But then right as that was happening, there was a huge alarm. Ken knew that he should have been more careful about what he was doing and then within ten seconds, there was the doors being thrown open and then Ken was forced to take out his sword again. His right arm was his sword and then his left arm was his shield. "You should have been more smart about how you were going to take out our leader." The digimon said and then Ken looked around and he was taking a head count. There was like fifteen that he needed to fight and he saw that one of them had keys. Ken assumed that this would be the keys to a car. Ken thought that he just needed to take that digimon out and then get the keys and then he could drive down the map and then he could be done with this all.
Ken raised his sword up as if he was getting himself totally ready for striking down at least some of the enemies. The first digimon charged at him and Ken ducked underneath and then when he had ducked underneath he stood back up when he reached the other side and then stabbed that one in the chest, which was good enough to take that one out. When he had done that, he looked around and was trying to see what he could possibly do about the other digimon in the area. When the next one started to come towards him, Ken knew that this one was going to be harder than the last one with the fact that they were carrying two weapons.
This second digimon swung one of their weapons down at Ken and as a result, he was hit in the chest and then he almost fell down to the ground but the pain was so bad that he was forcing himself to stay upwards and not to fall down on the ground feeling as if he was going to die. With the pain that he was feeling, he was making himself stay up and as he was making himself stay up, he held onto the sword that was given to him by that one digimon teacher very tightly in order to make sure that it did not fall out of his hands as he was basically having his damn life depend on this very weapon, which to be fair, it kind of was the truth already even without the over blown tightness to it. As he was holding onto this sword as much as possible, he turned around and then he was ramming the blade as far into the digimon as he could, making sure that this would be what very clearly ended the entire battle and made it very clear that he was not going to be messed with at all on this world.
Then Ken turned around and he was now holding both hands on his blade since he had started to slowly learn his lesson on what he needed to do. He saw another digimon come at him and they made a very clear swipe by cutting off a couple one of his hairs but that was not really the huge problem. He just saw that that the digimon was trying to kill him by doing it in the quietest way possible as a possible way to make Ken not really think that he was going to be in too much trouble over what was going on. But when Ken was starting to see a little bit of the way that this digimon was starting to handle the situation, Ken jumped up and kicked the digimon's face which made the digimon very dazed at what was happening and then afterwards, Ken took the killing blow and despite already taking care of three of the digimon so far, he still had twelve more to go, which was starting to make him realize just how much work he really had to be doing.
Then afterwards, the fourth digimon that was coming towards Ken stabbed him right in the foot which made Ken give off a quick scream in pain but he realized that screaming in pain was not really going to make him win this battle but he was focused on that stabbing so much that for the next minute or so when Ken was fighting this digimon off, he was having one of his hands focus on trying to get that thing out. Eventually though, he just gave up and then slashed that digimon straight down like the one that he had dealt with probably about five minutes ago by this point in time. Then grabbed the sword and as he was holding the sword up that stabbed him, he threw it down to the ground well behind him in order to make it so that none of the digimon got tempted to take him out with it, but he was still having eleven more that he had to deal with and he was already getting visibly tired from all of this. Well, maybe not really tired since that made it sound like a small deal but he knew that if he dealt with this too much more, he was probably going to die really soon and that was what scared the shit out of him.
When Ken saw the fifth one come to him, he saw them just punch him right in the face and the punch was enough to make him fall to his knees and he was feeling like this was making his battle movements very limited and that his death was going to be very close to being here. But he was not going to go out without a try. He was going to make sure of that. He was not going to go out without at least some form of a try. Then he saw the digimon just kick him three times in the chest and then Ken was feeling like he was going to die. Ken was starting to cry a little bit out of all of the pain which was quite a shock for him to be totally honest. Then Ken just stabbed the digimon in the face when he saw that there was a short moment that he could do that and took that one down.
After he took that fifth one down, he still had a good ten to go. This was starting to really wear him down. As if he was really getting near his death and it was only his second day after he left the sword training spot. The sixth digimon was holding a club with spikes on it and the spikes hit Ken on the side of his chest and he was feeling like his bones had just broke or something but then Ken grabbed the digimon and as they were falling to the ground, he stabbed them really quickly not even wanting to give them a few seconds to break away from the movement Ken put them on.
The seventh enemy of Ken started to slowly approach him since by that point Ken had proven himself to be a true foe that should not really be messed around with. ken had proven himself to be a foe that should be taken seriously despite what people would start to think about him when they had first met him. They aimed their spear right up near his throat and the stab nearly worked, as they had gotten to his upper chest. But in the end, their stab was just too small to really get his throat and while Ken did produce a fair share of bleeding as a result of the stab, Ken did not feel too bad over it and then he punched that digimon right in the face to make that digimon start to feel a little bit more weak and then afterwards Ken stabbed down at that digimon to take them out.
Then Ken turned around to see what the other eight digimon were thinking since he still had a little more than half way to go before he had truly won the whole battle. But then the next one threw a ninja star at him and this one was a true surprise for Ken and it got his left arm and it made his left arm bleed so bad he wanted to die. Then he realized that it wasn't really that bad when he saw that he was able to pull it out of his arm and then after he had pulled it out of his arm, he threw the ninja star right at the digimon who had thrown it at him and then when he did that, he slashed at that digimon very quickly and then he took out his eighth foe, meaning that there was only seven more of them to go. So by now he was literally over half way there and it was just down hill from there on forward.
The ninth one started to come towards him and they they had been coming towards him, he saw what that one was going to do right away. He knew that he did not even really have to try all that hard to take that one out. He just put his hand on their face and them slammed them down on the ground but then as he had done that, he saw the digimon took out something that looked like a strange gas and then after they took out this strange gas looking thing, it started to make Ken gag and then he realized that this was meant to make him have a daze and not really be able to know what was going on. Ken stood up slowly and then he just stabbed down on that one, bringing his victory count up to nine now.
With about sixty percent of the battle all won by this point in time, he was looking around for the tenth opponent and then he saw that was one who had been taking out their gun. Ken was well aware of the thing that the five day or so master had told him that the guns were not really all that big of a deal in this area and that he was going to be able to very easily take care of this one. The gun shots started to get close to Ken and some of them even started to ruin a little bit of his pretty much already ruined clothes and then he easily took that one out when he sliced them in half. With that, ten of them were defeated and then there were only five of them more to go.
The eleventh one took out a boomerang. Ken thought that this was a strange weapon and thought that if for nothing else, he could be able to appreciate the creativity of that one. Then with that all done with, Ken then saw the boomerang just about to hit him and he was now more ready to take that one out knowing what was going to be coming for him. Then he fell down to the ground when out of nowhere, it swept him under from his feet. Ken then hit the ground and then the next digimon was getting ready to take him out but then he stabbed them from the ground very easily and when he was done with that, he looked up and around and saw that only four of them were left, just as he had expected it to be.
It was getting a little bit easy to take that one all done with, as there was the twelfth one that was coming towards him. When the next one had started to approach him, this one had brass knuckles and they got a couple of punches at Ken and Ken was feeling some of his guts on the verge of coming out and he was starting to think that maybe he was going to die very soon if this was not taken care of sooner. Then Ken was on the ground and then he was bleeding out of his nose. He started to slowly get himself up and as he was slowly getting himself up, he grabbed his sword again before any one of them had a chance to steal it from him and then he slashed that up a good two to three times and he was able to win the battle that way.
Afterwards, the next one came towards him and as the next came out towards him, they had something that looked like a taser. This one was going to be really easy for him to take care of. He just sliced off the arms of this digimon and then after he sliced their arms of, the cut them into three pieces and then afterwards, there was thirteen out of the fifteen done with now. Only two of them were left to go and Ken was getting to the point where once he won this battle, he probably was going to sleep for a few hours to slowly start to recover from the shit that he just dealt with.
When Ken had gotten to the last two digimon, he saw that one them pulled out a switch blade and Ken had to think for a second on how lame of a weapon that was as he started to go and fight with, but he had a horrible feeling that if he had started to think more like that, this digimon was going to somehow come in and then wreck him totally despite the fact that Ken was not expecting it to happen. For some reason, he was one of those people who always felt like something was going to go down and then be terrible when in reality, there was no real reason for him to feel that way. The switchblade stabbed a little bit into his chest and that hurt quite a bit, but then Ken grabbed the blade out of him and then he stabbed the switchblade into the digimon again and then he sliced that one down with the sword and now he only had one left to deal with.
On the final digimon, Ken saw that this one just happened to be the one who had the key. Ken rolled his eyes at his luck. Not that he really could do anything about it before that point either way, but this was still annoying that out of all of them, it just had to be the very last one of them all. But then with that, Ken looked around and found a urn for the flowers of this room and then that was when Ken saw that the thing was about to fall over. Ken grabbed that pot and then he slammed it down to that final digimon and there was blood on his hand as a result of all of this and then he took out the final digimon by stabbing them in the face. Then he slowly grabbed the key and afterwards put it in his pocket and then he laid down on the bed and then he started to close his eyes and start to go to sleep.
After Ken had woken up, he was feeling really stiff and he was not quite sure if this was what he was actually seeing. He started to look around and he had seen that it was about nine hours after he had gone to sleep. Nine hours of sleep was a decent amount, but he had felt like he needed way more to make up from the fight that he had to deal with and the fact that he had pretty much just basically died and had he not slept at all, he would have been dead for sure. He looked and saw that his key was still there and he was really happy that this was still there. He picked up his sword again and he was going to continue being a blade runner even if he had never wanted to admit that this was the fucking case.
Then after he had left the room and grabbed the map once more on his way out, he was getting ready to figure out where he was supposed to go and what the hell he was supposed to be doing. He walked down the stairs and he was starting to feel really brain dead the more that he was walking down there. The lights and burning sensation of this casino was starting to really mess with his brain and he was starting to doubt if he was actually at the place he slowly started to accept that he was actually at. It had taken him several days for him to even start to get used to, but he was forcing himself to get used to the place and honestly the place was not too bad, he just did not like all the constant fear of dying.
Then he had walked down the stairs fully and when he was in the normal room once more, he was seeing a bunch of digimon looking at Ken as if they were wondering if he was okay and if he needed even more rest than the amount that he had gotten to this point in time. He was not really sure if he could be able to let them know what had happened, considering the fact that he was pretty much always going to be near death probably even if he had not wanted to be this way, and he was getting outside as all of the rich digimon who wanted to rob Ken for the sword that he had, decided to just leave him alone as they had decided that it probably was not really even worth going out of their way and harassing him over this.
After he was outside, Ken started to look around the area for a car and he was walking backwards as he was slowly getting back to the stream of thought that was keeping him alive in the first place, and he was slowly starting to get over the fact that he pretty much had nearly died like six or seven times. The casino lights were not really as bright and annoying after he had gotten used to it for the first few minutes. Not that it really would matter considering the fact that he was going to leave this place soon anyways and when he leaves the place, he would probably be driving down a huge road that would probably be really bleak by comparison.
Soon enough, he found the white car of the area and then he put the key inside the lock and then he opened the door of the car. Then Ken slowly got inside the car and the only part that was still hurting all of this time was his back. He turned on the car and then he started to drive down on the way to the destination of the map. The more that he was driving, the more that he was seeing the setting change from a bleak and destroyed city, well more like village, and he was seeing that the forest was actually really nice and that this would be a good place for somebody to try to drive down on a normal day if they had been given more chances.
